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What about Buying Your Next Plane Ticket from a Vending Machine?
This Japanese Airline Is Selling Mystery Tickets from Vending Machines
You could still show up at an airport or ticket office to buy your travel tickets, and sometimes with certain low-cost airlines you might even save a buck or two by doing so. But most of us stick to booking our travel online these days — it's easy, fast, and usually has the best prices (think of all the hot deals on our homepage that can only booked there!)
It's nice to see other options you might not have thought of from time to time, though. And Japanese low-cost carrier Peach Airlines is proposing just that, by selling mystery trips in vending machines! Scroll down to learn more.
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Peach has begun selling these mystery tickets in gachapon vending machines in major Japanese cities, Osaka and Tokyo. Gachapon refers to those small capsules that usually have a surprise toy — we've seen them around the US as well, but never with surprise flight tickets!
It came as a bit of a surprise to the airline's marking team that was just "trying it out," but they've already sold more than 3,000 mystery trips. For the time being, these trips are on domestic routes within Japan.
Osaka and Tokyo have one machine each, with the Tokyo machine located in busy Shibuya station and the Osaka machine at the bustling Shansaibashi Parco department store.
Each ball is currently sold for 5,000 yen (roughly $44). Since each mystery ticket covers round-trip travel, they're quite cheap. According to the Japan Times, Peach plans to close the Shibuya machine at the end of the year, but is still considering setting up more machines due to their huge success.
Should US airlines start looking at doing the same? Once Japan drops quarantine for vaccinated travelers, would you consider grabbing a gachapon?
Source: Japan Times